Golf practice tool to improve swing form

ABSTRACT

A golf practicing apparatus for providing a feedback with regard to a swing speed and form includes a hand portion, a strip portion, and a weight portion. The weight portion provides a signal when a player makes a swing with the apparatus and the signal indicates how the swing is made.

CROSS REFERENCE TO RELATED APPLICATIONS

This application claims the benefit of U.S. Provisional Application No. 63/009,406 filed on Apr. 13, 2020, the entire contents of which are hereby incorporated herein by reference.

FIELD OF THE INVENTION

The present invention is related to a golf swing practicing tool.

BACKGROUND

Prior, a golfer practices golf swing with a regular golf club or the similar. Even though using a regular golf club provides benefits in some areas, it does not provide the golfer a feedback that the golfer can utilize immediately to improve her swing. Particularly, it is difficult for the golfer to notice changes in the swing speed by using a regular golf club.

SUMMARY

In accordance with the concepts, techniques and systems described herein is a golf practice tool for improving a swing form. The techniques and tools described herein may provide feedback that can be utilized to improve swing forms.

In one aspect, a golf practicing apparatus for providing a feedback with regard to a swing speed and form is featured. The golf practicing apparatus may comprise a hand portion, a strip portion, and a weight portion, wherein the weight portion may provide a signal when a player makes a swing with the apparatus and the signal indicates how the swing is made.

Here, the hand portion of the practicing apparatus may be covered by a rubber.

Here, the weight portion of the practicing apparatus may comprise a rubber ball.

Here, the signal from the weight portion may be a sound.

Here, the signal from the weight portion may be a light.

Here, the strip portion of the practicing apparatus may comprise a flexible rope.

Here, the length of the strip portion of the practicing apparatus may be adjustable. In an aspect, the length of the strip portion may be adjusted using an adjusting clip attached to the strip portion.

In another example embodiment, a method for A method for practicing golf is provided including swinging a golf practicing apparatus comprising a hand portion, a strip portion and a weight portion, getting a signal provided by the weight portion, and adjusting a swinging motion based upon the signal.

Here, the hand portion of the practicing apparatus may be covered by a rubber.

Here, the weight portion of the practicing apparatus may comprise a rubber ball.

Here, the signal from the weight portion may be a sound.

Here, the signal from the weight portion may be a light.

Here, the strip portion of the practicing apparatus may comprise a flexible rope.

Here, the length of the strip portion of the practicing apparatus may be adjustable. In an aspect, the length of the strip portion may be adjusted using an adjusting clip attached to the strip portion.

Here, the step of step of getting a signal provided by the weight portion may further include checking whether the weight portion touches the player's shoulder.

The details of one or more embodiments of the disclosure are outlined in the accompanying drawings and the description below. Other features, objects, and advantages of the disclosure will be apparent from the description and drawings, and from the claims.

BRIEF DESCRIPTION OF THE DRAWINGS

The foregoing features may be more fully understood from the following description of the drawings in which:

FIG. 1 is a diagram of an illustrative golf practice tool according to the concepts described herein;

FIG. 2 is a diagram showing an illustrative implementation of a mechanism to adjust length of the strip portion according to the concepts described herein; and

FIG. 3 is a picture of an exemplary implementation of golf practice tool according to the concepts described herein.

DETAILED DESCRIPTION

Relative descriptions used herein, such as left, right, up, and down, are with reference to the figures, are merely relative and not meant in a limiting sense. Unless otherwise specified, the illustrated embodiments may be understood as providing illustrative features of varying detail of certain embodiments, and therefore, unless otherwise specified, features, components, modules, elements, and/or aspects of the illustrations can be otherwise combined, interconnected, sequenced, separated, interchanged, positioned, and/or rearranged without materially departing from the disclosed concepts, systems, or methods. Additionally, the shapes and sizes of components are intended to be only illustrative and unless otherwise specified, can be altered without materially affecting or limiting the scope of the concepts sought to be protected herein.

Referring now to FIG. 1, a golf practice tool 100 is shown. In embodiments, the golf practice tool 100 may comprise a hand portion 10, a strip portion 20, a weight portion 30 and an adjusting clop 40. The hand portion 10 may comprise a hand grip that may be found in a golf club. The hand portion 10 may be taped as shown in FIG. 1, or the hand portion 10 may be covered by leather or the like. The strip portion 20 may comprise a material that is flexible so that the strip portion can be bent when a golfer swings the practice tool 10. For example, the strip portion 20 may comprise a flexible rope that is shown in FIG. 3. Alternatively, any other suitable materials may be used to form the strip portion 30, which is a) flexible to be bent with a swing and b) is not stretching so that the length of the strip portion 30 does not increase more than a certain limit (e.g., 10% of the length of the strip portion 30).

In an embodiment, the weight portion 40 may comprise a rubber ball. In another embodiment, the weight portion 40 may comprise a plastic ball. Yet in another embodiment, the weight portion 40 may comprise a ball with a light. The weight portion 40 is attached to the strip portion 30 at a location which is the opposite end from the hand portion 10. In an embodiment, the weight portion 40 may be fixedly attached to the strip portion 30 and the relative location of the weight portion 40 to the strip portion 30 does not change. In another embodiment, the weight portion 40 may have a hole in the weight portion 40 so that the strip portion 30 may go through the hole of the weight portion 40 and the weight portion 40 may move along the strip portion 30. In this embodiment, the weight portion 40 automatically may move to the opposite end from the hand portion 10 when a golfer swings the practice tool 100 due to the weight of the weight portion 40.

The weight portion 40 may provide a feedback when a golfer swings the practice tool 100. In an embodiment, the weight portion 40 may comprise a rubber ball with holes on the surface of the weight portion. In this embodiment, the weight portion 40 may provide a feedback in the form of a sound (e.g., a swish sound). The sound from the weight portion 40 may become bigger when the golfer swings with a higher speed. Alternately, the sound may go to a higher pitch when the swing speed increases. Accordingly, the golfer may find out how she swings immediately by hearing the sound from the weight portion. In another embodiment, the weight portion 40 may comprise a light. This light from the weight portion 40 may indicate the path of the weight portion 40 when it is captured in a video. By analyzing the captured video, the golfer may easily find out how she swings. In other implementation, the weight portion may provide another form of feedback.

In an implementation, the golfer may check whether the weight portion 40 touches her shoulder after a swing. With the right flexibility of the strip portion 30, if the weight portion 40 does not touch the golfer's shoulder, it may indicate that she did not perform the swing with enough speed. This additional feedback from the weight portion 40 may help the golfer to improve his or her swing speed and swing form.

Referring now to FIG. 2, a portion 200 of the golf practice tool 100 is shown. The strip portion 70 is attached to the hand portion 50. The length of the strip portion 70 may be adjusted by an adjusting clip 60. In an embodiment, the adjusting clip 60 may tie a portion of the strip portion 70 so that the length of the strip portion 60 can be shortened.

Referring now to FIG. 3, an exemplary implementation 300 of the golf practice tool 100 is shown. This exemplary implementation 300 uses a regular golf grip as a hand portion, a non-stretchable threaded rope as a strip portion and a rubber ball as a weight portion.

Having described preferred embodiments, which serve to illustrate various concepts, structures and techniques, which are the subject of this patent, it will now become apparent that other embodiments incorporating these concepts, structures and techniques may be used. Accordingly, it is submitted that the scope of the patent should not be limited to the described embodiments but rather should be limited only by the spirit and scope of the following claims.

Accordingly, other embodiments are within the scope of the following claims. 

What is claimed is:
 1. A practicing apparatus, the apparatus comprising: a hand portion; a strip portion; and a weight portion, wherein the weight portion provides a signal when a player makes a swing with the apparatus, wherein the signal indicates how the swing is made.
 2. The practicing apparatus of claim 1, wherein the hand portion is covered by a rubber.
 3. The practicing apparatus of claim 1, wherein the weight portion comprises a rubber ball.
 4. The practicing apparatus of claim 1, wherein the signal comprises a sound.
 5. The practicing apparatus of claim 1, wherein the signal comprises a light.
 6. The practicing apparatus of claim 1, wherein the strip portion comprises a flexible rope.
 7. The practicing apparatus of claim 1, wherein a length of the strip portion is adjustable.
 8. The practicing apparatus of claim 7, wherein the length of the strip portion is adjustable using an adjusting clip attached to the strip portion.
 9. A method for practicing golf, the method comprising: swinging, by a player, a golf practicing apparatus comprising a hand portion, a strip portion and a weight portion; getting a signal provided by the weight portion; and adjusting a swinging motion based upon the signal.
 10. The method of claim 9, wherein the hand portion is covered by a rubber.
 11. The method of claim 9, wherein the weight portion comprises a rubber ball.
 12. The method of claim 9, wherein the signal comprises a sound.
 13. The method of claim 9, wherein the signal comprises a light.
 14. The method of claim 9, wherein the strip portion comprises a flexible rope.
 15. The method of claim 9, wherein a length of e strip portion is adjustable.
 16. The method of claim 15, wherein the length of the strip portion is adjustable with an adjusting clip attached to the strip portion.
 17. The method of claim 9, wherein the step of getting a signal provided by the weight portion further comprises: checking whether the weight portion touches the player's shoulder. 